The 24th edition of the “Femme en Or” award was dedicated to Innovation, with two new categories this year: “Femme de Goût ” (Woman of Taste) promoting the “French art of life” and “Femme de la Smart City” (Smart City Woman) for those who introduce digital science in our cities. The “Femme de la Smart City” …
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Nov 24 2016
Nina Miolane Awardee of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science
Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc laureate Nina Miolane is one of the thirty promising young researchers recognised by UNESCO and the L’Oréal Foundation in 2016. She has been awarded a “Women in Science” Fellowship for her virtual patient research in the category “Exploring the brain, a new world to conquer”. The thirty laureates were chosen this year from …
Nov 24 2016
Software Heritage: Collect, organise, preserve and share the Software Heritage of mankind
Software Heritage: Universal software archive On June 30th 2016, Inria announced the launching of “Software Heritage”, an ambitious initiative to collect, organise, preserve, and make easily accessible the source code of all software that is publicly available. By building a universal and sustainable software archive, the goal of Software heritage is to create an essential infrastructure …
Nov 24 2016
Focus on a joint research project: ITSNAP
ITSNAP (2009-2014) Intelligent techniques for structures of nucleic acids and proteins Principal Investigators: Dr. Julie Bernauer, AMIB project-team, Inria Saclay Île-de-France Prof. Michael Levitt, Stanford University Dr Henry van den Bedem, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC Research objectives: RNA molecules are key biomolecules that are involved in a wide range of important biological processes for therapeutics …
Oct 20 2016
France-Stanford 2017 call is now open!
France-Stanford – 2017 call for Collaborative Projects, Fellowships and Conferences The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to bridge the disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Engineering, Business and Law, addressing historical and contemporary issues of significance for France and the United States from …
Oct 20 2016
France Berkeley Fund 2017 call is now open!
France-Berkeley Fund – 2017 Call for Projects The France Berkeley Fund (FBF) was established in 1993 as a partnership between theFrench Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the University of California at Berkeley, the France-Berkeley Fund promotes scholarly exchange in all disciplines between UC Berkeley and all research centers and public institutions of …
Oct 19 2016
Launch of the ERC-funded ONE project “One is Not Enough”: meeting with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, researcher in the DECIbel Associate Team
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is member of EX-SITU, a joint LRI and Inria Saclay Île-de-France centre team, contributing to the Inria@SiliconValley associate team DECIbel with CITRIS Last spring Michel received an ERC Advanced Grant for his ONE project. The aim of the project is to fundamentally rethink the basic principles and the conceptual model of interactive systems, in order to enable …
Oct 14 2016
Collaborative project funding opportunities: France Berkeley Fund & France Stanford 2017 call
France-Berkeley Fund – 2017 Call for Projects The France Berkeley Fund (FBF) was established in 1993 as a partnership between theFrench Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the University of California at Berkeley, the France-Berkeley Fund promotes scholarly exchange in all disciplines between UC Berkeley and all research centers and public institutions of …
Oct 14 2016
Mobility Funding opportunities: Chateaubriand STEM and Fulbright Fellowships
STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) 2016-2017 The STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship program targets outstanding Ph.D. students enrolled in an American university (U.S. citizenship is not required) who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a 4 to 9 month period. The Office of Science and Technology and …
Oct 13 2016
Focus on a joint research project: IT-SG-WN
IT-SG-WN (2011-2013) Wireless networks and information theory Principal Investigators: Dr. François Baccelli, TREC project-team, Inria Paris Prof. Venkat Anantharam, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: The research is centered on the interplay between stochastic geometry and network information theory, with a particular emphasis on wireless networks. In terms of research, two main lines of thought are: …